Music Quotes - Page 34

• The music is in minors.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Musician, Music Is, Minors

  Gwendolyn Brooks (1971). “The world of Gwendolyn Brooks”, Harpercollins

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• There is plenty of room left for exact experiment in art, and the gate has been opened for some time. What had been accomplished in music by the end of the eighteenth century has only begun in the fine arts. Mathematics and physics have given us a clue in the form of rules to be strictly observed or departed from, as the case may be. Here salutary discipline is come to grips first of all with the function of forms, and not with form as the final result … in this way we learn how to look beyond the surface and get to the root of things.

  Paul Klee

  Art, Learning, Roots

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• Down the road someone is practicing scales,
  The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink of tails

  Louis MacNeice

  Sound, Tails, Littles

  Louis Macneice, “Sunday Morning”

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• I don't know where "bro country" came from or what it really means, but a lot of those guys are my buddies and I ­support their music. Within ­country there are lots of styles: stone-cold country, like Brandy Clark, and there's Florida Georgia Line with what they do, which is completely different and bringing a whole new audience. There's room for everyone.

  Miranda Lambert

  Country, Mean, Florida

  "ACM Queen Miranda Lambert Dishes on Her Good-Luck Charm for the Big Night and the Bro-Country Trend: 'There's Room for Everyone'". Interview with Chuck Arnold, www.billboard.com. April 13, 2015.

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• People of talent resemble a musical instrument more closely than they do a musician. Without outside help, they produce not a single sound, but given even the slightest touch, and a magnificent tune emanates from them.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Inspirational, People, Sound

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• So I cradle this average violin that knows
  Only forgotten showtunes, but argues
  The possibility of free declamation anchored
  To a dull refrain.

  John Ashbery

  Average, Dull, Violin

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”, Penguin Group USA

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• And at dawn, the drums still beat on the sleepless plain like an unstoppable heart.

  Jacques Roumain

  Heart, Dawn, Unstoppable

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• I was just glad to get the Grammy. I didn't know what the thing was. It's the honor what I loved.

  Elizabeth Cotten

  Art, Honor, Performing

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• I traveled and made money and I wouldn't let anybody get between me and my music. If I belong to anything, I belong to my music. ...What you were born to do, you don't stop to think, should I? could I? would I? I only think, will I? And, I shall!

  Eva Jessye

  Commitment, Thinking, Born

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• Art is beauty, and every exposition of art, whether it be music, painting, or the drama, should be subservient to that one great end. As long as nature is a means to the attainment of beauty, so-called realism is necessary and permissable [sic], but it must be realism enhanced by idealism and uplifted by the spirit of an inner life or purpose.

  Julia Marlowe

  Beauty, Art, Drama

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• The first typical adolescent of modern times was Wagner's Siegfried. : the music of Siegfried expressed for the first time that combination of (provisional) purity, physical strength, naturism, spontaneity and joie de vivre which was to make the adolescent the hero of our twentieth century, the century of adolescence.

  Philippe Aries

  Strength, Hero, Typical

  Philippe Ariès (1962). “Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life”, Vintage

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• I am never merry when I hear sweet music.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Venice, Shylock

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 69

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• Music and Wine are one.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wine, Musician

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.71, U of Nebraska Press

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• Chopin--Two embalmers at work upon a minor poetthe scent of tuberosesAutumn rain.

  H. L. Mencken

  Rain, Two, Scent

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• How pleasant it is to be ignorant! Not to know exactly who Mozart was, to ignore his origin, his influence, the details of his technique! To just let him lead one by the hand.

  Maria Luisa Bombal

  Hands, Ignorant, Technique

  Arturo Torres-Rioseco, Félix Pita Rodríguez, Lino Novás Calvo, Horacio Quiroga, Francisco Ayala (1967). “Short stories of Latin America”

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• Richard Strauss--Old Home Week in Gomorrah

  H. L. Mencken

  Home, Musician, Week

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• If you love music hear it; go to operas, concerts, and pay fiddlers to play to you; but I insist upon your neither piping nor fiddling yourself. It puts a gentleman in a very frivolous, contemptible light; brings him into a great deal of bad company; and takes up a great deal of time, which might be much better employed.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Play, Light, Gentleman

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• Music stands in a much closer connection with pure sensation than any of the other arts.

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Art, Connections, Pure

  Hermann von Helmholtz, Alexander John Ellis (1875). “On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music”, p.3, London : Longmans, Green and Company

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• The glamour
  Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast
  Down in the flood of remembrance.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Maturity, Remembrance, Childhood

  'Piano' (1918)

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• Not only is music a beautiful and sublime science, the study of which ennobles and purifies the mind of its votary, but how many and excellent are its ministries to others!

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Beautiful, Sublime, Mind

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• How soar sweet music is, when time is broke, and no proportion kept!

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Broke, Proportion

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare”, p.258

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• Music is 'significant form,' and its significance is that of a symbol, a highly articulated, sensuous object, which by virtue of its dynamic structure can express the forms of vital experience which language is peculiarly unfit to convey. Feeling, life, motion and emotion constitute its import.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Feelings, Emotion, Language

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• Music is our myth of the inner life.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Music Is, Myth, Inner Life

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• Colorblind racism is the new racial music most people dance to, the 'new racism' is subtle, institutionalized and seemingly nonracial.

  Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

  Racism, People, Subtle

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• The mastery of one's phonemes may be compared to the violinist's mastery of fingering. The violin string lends itself to a continuous gradation of tones, but the musician learns the discrete intervals at which to stop the string in order to play the conventional notes. We sound our phonemes like poor violinists, approximating each time to a fancied norm, and we receive our neighbor's renderings indulgently, mentally rectifying the more glaring inaccuracies.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Order, Play, May

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